Installing ColdFusion MX

	Installing ColdFusion MX
	Last updated: May 15, 2002 8:00 AM

Before you begin the installation, please read the online version of the ColdFusion MX Release Notes and the following sections carefully:

System Requirements
Installation Instructions

Note: In this section, cf_root refers to the directory in which you installed ColdFusion MX. By default, this is C:\CFusionMX in Windows and /opt/coldfusionmx on UNIX.

The following table lists other installation-related tasks and where you can find the information to complete them:

Task	Information resource
Migrate a ColdFusion 5 application to ColdFusion MX	The Migrating from ColdFusion section of the ColdFusion MX Release Notes and Migrating ColdFusion 5 Applications
Interact with ColdFusion pages, components, and server-side ActionScript from a Flash movie, using the Flash Remoting service in ColdFusion MX.	Using Flash Remoting and Using Server-Side ActionScript with ColdFusion MX. Note: You must install the Flash Remoting Components in the Flash MX authoring environment. The Flash MX authoring environment is required to build applications that connect to and interact with the Flash Remoting service in ColdFusion.
Install ClusterCATS	To download the appropriate setup file for your platform, see http://www.macromedia.com/go/cfmx_clustercats. For installation instructions, see Using ClusterCATS.

System Requirements

Category	Requirements	Notes
CPU	Windows and Linux – Pentium Solaris – SPARC HP-UX – PA-RISC version 1.1 or 2.0	Pentium II recommended for Windows and Linux
Hard drive space	250 MB	400 MB required to install in Windows 400-500 MB required to install on UNIX
RAM	256 MB	512 MB recommended
Supported operating systems	Windows 98 Windows Millennium Edition (ME) Windows NT 4.0 (Workstation and Server) SP6A Windows NT 4 Server, Enterprise Edition Windows 2000 (Professional SP2, Server SP2, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server) Windows XP (Home and Professional) Red Hat Linux 6.2 - 7.2 SuSE Linux 7.2, 7.3 Solaris 7, 8 HP-UX Enterprise 11.00	Solaris: JRE-related requirements ( http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/install-solaris.html)
Supported web servers	IIS 4.0, 5.x (Windows only) Apache 1.3.2x and above, 2.x Netscape 3.6x iPlanet 4.x, 6.x Zeus 4.1 (Linux SuSE only) ColdFusion MX built-in web server

Installation Instructions

The following sections describe how to start the ColdFusion MX installation in Windows and UNIX:

Installing ColdFusion MX in Windows

Read the online version of the ColdFusion MX Release Notes for late-breaking changes.
Insert the ColdFusion MX CD-ROM; or browse to the network location for the ColdFusion MX setup file and double-click the file.
The ColdFusion MX installer starts.
Follow the prompts and let the installer run to completion. After the settings confirmation screen, the necessary files are copied to your system.
Note: The installer might take a short while to finish. Please be patient and let it run to completion.
After the installation finishes, restart your computer.
If you have ColdFusion 5 installed, when you open the ColdFusion Administrator for the first time, you have the option to run a wizard that migrates your ColdFusion 5 settings. If you do not run the wizard at this time, to run it later, you need to change the value of the following registry key from 0 to 1: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Macromedia\Install Data\Neo\migrate. When you restart the ColdFusion Administrator you are prompted to run the wizard again.
Note: Running the wizard later will overwrite any new ColdFusion MX settings.
If desired, run the Code Compatibility Analyzer from the ColdFusion Administrator. The Analyzer checks for compatibility issues in your ColdFusion 5 applications.

Installing ColdFusion MX on UNIX

Read the online version of the ColdFusion MX Release Notes for late-breaking changes.
Do one of the following:
- Insert the ColdFusion MX CD-ROM and double-click the installer file.
- Browse to the network location for the ColdFusion MX installer file and download the file that is appropriate for your platform and locale. Then modify the downloaded file using the following command:
```
chmod 755 <filename> 
```
The installer files for the English (US) locale are named as follows:
- coldfusion-60-linux-en.bin
- coldfusion-60-solaris-en.bin
- coldfusion-60-hpux-en.bin
If you are using a command line interface (Telnet/SSH, non-Xwindows console), start the installation with the following command:
```
./<filename>
```
Follow the on-screen instructions.
Note: The installer displays a status bar at the end of the installation that stops for a while. This is expected behavior; the installer has not hung. Please be patient and let the installer run to completion.
After the installation finishes, you must start ColdFusion MX to finish the product configuration. To do so, run the following command:
/cf_root/bin/coldfusion start
If you have ColdFusion 5 installed, when you open the ColdFusion Administrator for the first time, you are prompted to migrate your ColdFusion 5 settings. If you choose to skip it and you want to run it later, stop the ColdFusion Administrator, create a file called upgrade (it can be blank) in your cf_root/bin directory, and start the ColdFusion Administrator. You are prompted again to perform the migration.
Notes
- The user account under which ColdFusion MX runs must have read/write access to this file. The file is deleted once the migration completes.
- Running the wizard later will overwrite any new ColdFusion MX settings.
If desired, run the Code Compatibility Analyzer from the ColdFusion Administrator. The Analyzer checks for compatibility issues in your ColdFusion 5 applications.